Free Markets and the Culture of Common Good

by Juan Andrés Mercado and Martin Schlag

Book Overview

Recent economic development and the financial and economic crisis require a change in our approach to business and finance. This book combines theology, economy and philosophy in order to examine in detail the idea that the functioning of a free market economy depends upon sound cultural and ethical foundations.

The free market is a cultural achievement, not only an economic phenomenon subject to technical rules of trade and exchange. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401784043
• ISBN13: 9789401784047
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"